word of the day – parwhobble

parwhobble

(n.) a parley or conference between two or three persons (dialect)
(vb.) to talk continuously, so as to engross the conversation; to talk quickly, to chatter (dialect)

From: An Exmoor Scolding:
In the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language,
Between Two sisters, Wilmot Moreman and Thomansin Moreman as they were spinning,
Peter Lock, 1782
An Exmoor courtship
P.20

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